Visitors to the Teuila and S.I.D.S Food Festival yesterday gave the local cooks a pass mark for taste, presentation and innovation with local ingredients.
For some eighty local cooks chosen for the food festival over the next two weeks, the compliments were sweet music to their ears.
“The food is absolutely beautiful and fantastic,” said Stephanie from the United States. “It is my first time trying the different kinds of food and it’s just amazing.”
Ernest and his wife Anna Li were equally impressed about the quality of local food.
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“We have been to Savai’i and the food there was great. So coming here today and seeing the variety, we are extremely pleased. Samoan food is so good.”
Ryan and Joan Belles from Australia said their favourite was the coconut and banana porridge.
“It was just amazing,” they said.
Edward Yamai, from Papua New Guinea, who is here for the S.I.D.S conference noted there was a festival atmosphere about the place yesterday and he loved the local dishes.
Oganised by the Samoa Tourism Authority, the Food Festival is part of the Teuila programme for 2014. It has also been designed to promote Samoan food and other locally-made dishes to the thousands of visitors who will be in Samoa for S.I.D.S.
Earlier this year, the cooks had the chance to learn from award-winning chef and author, Robert Oliver, as part of their preparations for the Festival.
One of them was Fenika Aniseko Vaeluaga, of Malie, who said yesterday’s business was great.
“We are expecting to get more customers over the coming days and today was good for us to test our menu and make sure we are ready for when the masses arrive,” she said.
“This is our first time participating in such a huge programme and it’s exciting.”
The festival ends next week when S.I.D.S and the Teuila Festival finish.
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